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Creating an action bar

This guide explains how to make an action bar, which is a list of social media icons that hyperlink off to their respective sites.

To create an action bar:

  1. Click > Admin > Sites & Settings.

  2. In the Sites widget, click the site for which you want to create an action bar, or click Global to create an action bar for all sites.

  3. From the Front-End tab, expand the Action Bar cluster.

  4. To create a default action bar, do the following:

    1. From the Default Action Bar list, select Set.

    2. Under Items, click and select an action, such as a social networking share. Repeat to select additional actions. Your form looks similar to the following:

      action bar social networking

  5. To create a type-specific action bar, do the following:

    1. Under Type Specific Overrides, click .

    2. Under Items, click and select a social networking share. Your form looks similar to the following:

      action bar type specific

    3. From the Types list, select the content types to which this action bar applies.

    4. Repeat steps a–c to create additional type-specific action bars.

  6. Click Save.